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How about a useful desktop systemhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?427849
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427849I wonder what ever happened to the NetBSD desktop project mentioned some time back on OSnews?

http://www.osnews.com/story/20990/NetBSD_Starts_Desktop_ProjectThu, 03 Jun 2010 03:31:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Nitrodist)Commentsbase for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?427875
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427875Given the current scramble to have one OS to rule over all tablets, pads and smartphones, I'm surprised noone is using NetBSD as the base - its small, quick, easier to port to plenty of current and future architectures, has an amenable license?Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:06:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (project_2501)CommentsRE: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?427877
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427877What makes you think it's easier to port to current and future architectures? Linux surpassed it in actual ports long ago, and the driver support for each architecture is many times better. NetBSD's supposed portability comes from supporting many different CPUs, but the actual hardware support for each of them isn't really all that impressive.

What NetBSD excels at is being small and clean. It's probably far better suited for education than Linux, so it's really reached Linux's original goal of being a better Minix than Minix.Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:34:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt)CommentsRE: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?427880
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427880

Given the current scramble to have one OS to rule over all tablets, pads and smartphones, I'm surprised noone is using NetBSD as the base - its small, quick, easier to port to plenty of current and future architectures, has an amenable license?

Lack of hypeThu, 03 Jun 2010 07:54:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (hamster)CommentsRE: How about a useful desktop systemhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?427884
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427884I guess it didn't have enough interest... It is not that hard to make NetBSD with gnome, kde meta-pkg in packages. However, I have problems with sound (I need to restart pulseaudio after every reboot, video crashes with bigger resolutions, to make flash work was like a nightmare, no cpu scaling (and probably other power saving features with current CPUs), some applications doesn't work as expected and so on). So idea to have NetBSD on desktop needs a much more work without enough recourse on internet.Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:24:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (vezhlys)CommentsRE[2]: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?427890
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427890Being small and clean makes it easier to port than linux, which is anything but small and clean.Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:31:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake)CommentsKeep it goinghttp://www.osnews.com/thread?427901
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427901Hmm, I have some unpleasant experiences with NetBSD from some time ago. I did a regular install, configured everything properly ... and the beast just *failed* at pkg_add, which is unacceptable.
Normally I use OpenBSD, which is cleaned and ordered fork of NetBSD, but I always wanted to run NetBSD as a lab OS. Well, hopefuly this version will fix that *basic* pkg_add problem.Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:34:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (marcp)CommentsRE[3]: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?427903
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427903Exactly. You see - when someone writes that "Linux is more portable than NetBSD/OpenBSD" then you know he didn't give NetBSD a try, or just doesn't know too much about NetBSD/OpenBSD. I don't have to mention about Linux fanboyism ...Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:44:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (marcp)CommentsRE[4]: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?427929
http://www.osnews.com/thread?427929No, I write from experience. It might be more easily "portable", but it's not as well ported to several fairly big platforms, like PPC Mac.Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:44:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt)CommentsRE[2]: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?428096
http://www.osnews.com/thread?428096What makes you think it's easier to port to current and future architectures? Linux surpassed it in actual ports long ago [...]

There's a different between "most ported" and "most portable". Linux is the former, but it's more like "brute-force ported", just more folks working on it.

If a small hardware vendor wants to port an OS to their new device, it will surely be easier for them with NetBSD than with Linux.Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:22:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (ghen)CommentsRE[5]: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?428335
http://www.osnews.com/thread?428335'Not as well' is nonsense, it's very well ported. It's just quantity Vs quality. The latter isn't as speedy in development, but it's the best you can get. Why do you think they're using NetBSD/OpenBSD libc in Android and parts of the userland? Quality first! They're using the Linux kernel just because of the quantity of the drivers.Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:08:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Oliver)CommentsRE[6]: base for tablet/pad/smartphone?http://www.osnews.com/thread?428403
http://www.osnews.com/thread?428403They use NetBSD's libc because lightweight is a more important feature than the bloated glibc's features put together. As for NetBSD's drivers supposedly being better in quality -- some of them, probably, but many of them, even for outdated and common hardware that's been fully supported in Linux for ages, are only half-baked. And that's what I mean when I say it's not well ported. It doesn't actually work reliably on actual hardware.Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:17:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt)Comments